Bruno Specht

Bruno Specht (* 1856 or 1857 probably in Schweinfurt ; † after 1915) was a German architect and technical school teacher.

Life

Parish church "To Our Lady" in Kulmbach

Villa Gademann in Schweinfurt

Stations as a teacher

Specht was the son of the merchant and magistrate Council ( alderman ) Hermann Specht and visited the school year 1867/1868 to 1875 the Royal School in Schweinfurt, where he probably also made 1875 the Abitur.

Specht married in 1887.

For the years between 1888 and 1894, various buildings based on his designs can be verified in Bavaria, including several churches.

After 1894, Specht taught at various Prussian building trade schools . First he was a teacher at the building trade school in Nienburg an der Weser (mentioned in 1895). From there he was transferred to the building trade school in Breslau as a teacher in 1897 . Here he published numerous specialist publications. In Breslau he became a senior teacher on March 2, 1898 and a week later on March 9, he became a professor. On October 1, 1905, he was transferred to the building trade school in Erfurt , where he was still mentioned in 1916.

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In communion with the architect August Exter created in 1888 in Munich Isarvorstadt in Kohlstrasse 3 and 5 today under monument protection standing apartment buildings in the style of Neo-Renaissance in Rohbackstein with domestic integration .

At the end of the 1880s, the Rosenheim master builder Max Lutz (1850–1910) built a new, large nave as the main nave of the church for the Capuchin Monastery in Rosenheim according to Specht's plans. It was re-inaugurated on October 4, 1889.

In the years 1889 to 1891, according to Specht's plans, the Protestant church in Bischofsgrün was built as a neo-Gothic hall church with a retracted choir and tower facade.

Together with the Munich architect August Thiersch , he developed plans according to which the Protestant prayer house in Bad Kissingen , built in 1847 under the direction of Friedrich von Gärtner , was converted and expanded into today's Church of the Redeemer in 1890/1891 .

In the years 1892 to 1894, the neo-Gothic basilica "To Our Lady" was built in Kulmbach according to his designs . In 1896, after his plans in Schweinfurt at Bergstrasse 8, a villa with an ornamental gable and tower, brickwork and sandstone structures was built for paint manufacturer Carl Friedrich Gademann (1846–1910) and his wife Franciska, née. Saddler running. This villa is also a listed building today .

Fonts

• Community center and building trade school. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 27, 1893, No. 1, Pages 2–4.
• Space art. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 29th year 1895, pages 501–504.
• Bourgeois architecture. A collection of models for schools and practice. Trewendt & Granier, Breslau 1902.
• The limits of artistic development at the building trade schools. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 39th year 1905, page 310.
• Guide to architectural form theory, edited for building trade students. (4 parts) 1. – 3. Edition, Trewendt & Granier, Breslau 1903/1905/1907; 4th edition, Dresden 1909.
• The residential building. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 44th year 1910.

literature

• Gerhard Müller, Horst Weigelt, Wolfgang Zorn (ed.): Handbook of the history of the Protestant church in Bavaria 1800–2000. EOS Verlag Erzabtei St. Ottilien, 2000, ISBN 3-83067042-7 , page 178.

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Address books 1846 ff. As well as Ludwig Schubert: Directory of the mayors, councilors and municipal representatives… Schweinfurt 1888. - In the address book for the royal Bavarian city of Schweinfurt from 1856 (page 38) a Hermann Specht is mentioned as the owner of the cloth merchant Georg Christoph Will (house number 337 / 338) called. ( Digitized version )
2. ↑ The annual report 1874/1875 has not survived. The last entry can be found in the annual report 1873/1874. According to this, Bruno Specht was in the third grade of high school at the time, age 17 years and 4 months.
3. ↑ The finding aid of the holdings "Stadtarchiv Schweinfurt - Main Register - Administrative Repertory III" lists a file "Marriage of the architect Bruno Specht 1887" , although it was collected in the 1960s .
4. ^ Viktor Hortig, Konrad Hoppe: The development of the state building trade school in Breslau. Breslau 1928, page 111 (no.83).
5. ↑ The Capuchin Monastery in Rosenheim
6. ↑ online ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.